We’re All in the Same Boat

“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.” Charles Bukowski

30 thoughts on “We’re All in the Same Boat”

I think we have to re think the notion that we are going to die so that in the end nothing matters.

There is an infinity of living and breathing in death as well as life. We have regrets and we make mistakes. Life does not just end because the energy that is life does not disappear and will always be there in many guises.

If there is an eternity of living and breathing then i think i do not want to be old and discrepit but to spend my time cultivating character that is worthy of respect.

I believe the self that we think of is an illusion, sometimes called the ego in Eastern philosophy. To act without thinking about it and simply be is the goal. As Lao Tzu said: The master doesn’t think about his actions-they flow from the core of his being.